Re: VPN and Fedora server/Win client?

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Date: 04/20/05 

Date: 20 Apr 2005 08:29:04 -0700

Tauno Voipio wrote:
> For successful setting up of a VPN, you need pretty good
understanding
> of IP network addressing and routing principles.
>
> You could start with Rusty's Guides from
> <http://people.netfilter.org/~rusty/unreliable-guides/>.
> Don't let the names mislead you - the guides are some of the
> best there are.
>

Thanks, I'll give it a read! I see the other fellow's endorsing reply,
so I look forward to taking the time to check it out.

>
> In your case, I'd first try the bridged approach, unless it is
> deemed to be too intimate for the security of the internal network.

I took a glance at OpenVPN (as I mentioned) and also found
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/florin_andrei/openvpn/
It mentions tunnel and bridged, and I see you're probably right about
bridged. Which really sucks because it sounds like bridged is going to
be a pain to set up and is mentioned as being "inefficient". Which may
also suck since the client it going to be sending back and forth tons
of large files.

With tunneled, I understand the client will have a different IP range.
Like, for example, under the NAT currently our IP's are 192.168.1.2 -
.255. The VPN client would have an IP outside that? Like 196.182.1.5?
(I have no idea if that's a valid IP...I just made it up to ask the
question.)
So, could he still not be able to access other machines on the network
by navigating directly to their IP addresses? Or...he'd be also using a
different subnet, right? Different subnets are technically invisible to
other subnets on the same network?

LOL I should just read that link you sent me, huh? =)
Thanks!
Liam

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